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Don't forget the other exception of "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood", although then again I like to think Cicero, Babette, or another unnamed assassin that escaped the carnage still ended up doing that thing at the end (no spoilers).

I like your thinking. The idea of an "entity" had not occurred to me; perhaps something on par with Padomay and Anu, or perhaps some kind of divine manifestation of both/either. It is all just theories, ideas, etc, interesting to think about but all very, very unlikely. Still, CHIM and the Godhead are considered canon I believe, and this really isn't far beyond those ideas.

Might as well use my creative energies on something other than tin foil hats and alien abductions.

By Ann Marie, I assume you mean the Champion of Cyrodiil? Interesting idea, I'm almost glad you necroed my thread.

I'm sure others have had to deal with similar issues, and I would appreciate any and all help.

I decided to come back to Oblivion after a long hiatus and now it won't load at all. Well, I spent the past six hours fiddling with it, and managed to learn both how to successfully use TES4Edit (which I used to clean a number of my mods) as well as why my bashed patches weren't working. Anyway, I kept crashing at the loading screen before the Main Menu, so I began narrowing it down. Took me a couple hours (since there were several), but I thought I had the problem solved; two of my mods, Underdark and Black Marsh (both of which were relatively new in my mod list) were the culprits. I don't really care about them. Then I discovered that the crash was also caused by one of my beloved mods, Better Cities; I uninstalled and reinstalled the OMOD, but to no avail. I used BOSS to sort everything, and even had a Bashed Patch made (finally learned how to use it), but I still get crashes with Better Cities on. I refuse to play Oblivion without Better Cities. Call me spoiled. I don't care. I don't know what the problem is, please help.

I don't have that kind of money at the moment, and if I did I'd probably save it. Well that sucks, maybe when they have another sale I'll try to find one of those minority laptops which doesn't have it's graphics card integrated.

What kind of good gaming laptops are out there? Also, I want my laptop to be multi-purpose -- so I want something that's good as a work laptop as well. Although I think if it's just a good video card/RAM we're worried about, then it shouldn't matter -- right? Damn, those people must have lied to me. I asked the Best Buy people which computers would be cheap and able to run Skyrim well. It's a good laptop, but not for Skyrim.

Oh lol, mine was about $140. It's really good too (relatively). Why can't graphics cards be changed out in laptop? I figured it was just something that you could go have someone remove and replace, unless the sizes are different.

I have a laptop. Would that be a problem? I just want one that's cheap and better than what I have (as there would be no point in buying a new one if it's worse than my old one). But yeah you're right, it'd be better to invest in a high end one, especially if I want this laptop to carry me to Elder Scrolls 6.

Oh... I see. Lol that explains a lot, such as why my computer is high end but relatively poor on gaming. It runs Oblivion and Fallout 3 pretty good though. Just New Vegas and Skyrim aren't so good. So, any suggestions to a cheap alternative/replacement? And how expensive would it be to get the card replaced/installed, should I find a cheap, good new one?

I do not use texture or graphics mods. Thanks for all the replies. Don't abandon me yet -- I'll go check the GPU. Also, I tend to play on medium as far as graphics go. I found something: Intel® HD Graphics 4000 I don't know anything about computers so I don't know. All I know was that this computer was supposed to come with 4GB of RAM.

It's been hidden for quite a while. Kind of worrisome.

Well there is this http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/34829/?tab=2&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D34829&pUp=1 but that looks more like a cheat akin to what you were trying to avoid. There's also this thread. See the 2nd post down. If you use that strategy, hacking might be easier. http://www.gameskyrim.com/any-hacking-mods-worth-using-t63787.html

So not exactly word for word, but I just shortened some things for time: Intel® Core i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40 GHz RAM: 4.00 GB (3.82 usable) Type: 64 bit OS, x64-based processor